November 2014-
Harsh environments for PCs are not confined to factory floors and constructions sites today. They also include hospitals, trucks, and even some classroom settings, among others. A new study from IDG Research and related two-page paper detail just what environmental threats worry buyers the most, and therefore what laptop purchasing criteria rank the highest. Tying together strong computing capability with a highly productive operating system in the right rugged notebook solution is possible. Download this ...

October 2014-
The "year of desktop virtualization" has been touted for almost a decade. In practical terms, technology and service providers need to cater to its varying market characteristics, which represent an array of technologies best suited to particular needs across industry and geographic boundaries. Gartner's current research agenda for client computing aims to examine five major transitions that impact organizations today. This document explores the first of these transitions - namely, desktop virtualization's crossing into the ...

June 2013-
While the PC market faces widespread commoditization and consolidation, business models are changing to embrace economic realities and take advantage of emerging and disruptive technologies. This new business format has a counterbalancing impact on the poor customer service that resulted from commoditization. This disruption is based in cloud computing, and it has impacted the way companies support their customers, and how customers access services.

May 2013-
By leveraging HP technology, powered by Intel, Insight enhances your IT infrastructure's agility, scalability and deployment times. Learn how in The Tactical Realities of Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, a high-level tactical roadmap for successful VDI implementation.

October 2012-
IT departments need a solution that meets the evolving needs of both the employees and IT - something not possible with a traditional PC model.

This paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users' needs, and ready for new and future technology.

September 2012-
Learn about key factors in deploying a VDI and discover the benefits of using Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Simplified to help you realize desktop virtualization benefits while avoiding high costs and complexities.

September 2012-
You've already invested valuable resources in establishing a world-class Citrix environment. So how do you expect to match the new Citrix HDX capabilities you've licensed with an endpoint solution that can fully meet the needs and expectations of your users?

How can you enable non-traditional devices like network monitors, consumer set-top boxes, shop floor equipment, kiosks and hospital workstations-on-wheels to be able to display virtual apps and desktops directly, without the need for ...

September 2012-
For more than a decade, AMD and HP have collaborated to deliver a technology portfolio that grows more robust every year. The product line now features systems based on the entire family of AMD processors, including rack-mount servers, server blades, MicroServer, desktops, and notebooks.

Download this PDF for an overview of the HP ProLiant server portfolio based on AMD Opteron™ processors. You'll learn which server options best address your prioroties, whether performance and ...

July 2012-
This practical guide shows you six different ways to achieve your business goals using social software. It will help you choose the best social software approach for your enterprise - with the right balance of risk and reward - so you can get the business results you're looking for.

January 2012-
Despite being identified as an essential tool to support quality care initiatives, improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, electronic medical and health record (EMR/EHR) systems have been stuck in a slow growth cycle. However, pressure is quickly mounting on caregivers to adopt and demonstrate meaningful use of EMR/EHR technology.

Healthcare Informatics Research recently interviewed nearly 500 healthcare organizations to shed light on the current state of EMR/EHR adoption.

January 2012-
This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews, adopting desktop virtualization in the clinical environment.

Read the report to find out how desktop virtualization has helped these organizations improve efficiency in the IT department, drive adoption of EMR applications, and support clinician mobility with wireless access, various client hardware options, and single sign-on.

January 2012-
The move from paper-based medical records systems to electronic medical records (EMR) technology is meant to patient outcomes, increasing clinician productivity, and lowering costs. However, access to patient information must not only be secure, but also fast, convenient and reliable. Technologies that provide security but frustrate clinicians will slow EMR adoption to a crawl.

In this white paper, you'll learn how you can solve this "last mile" problem and maximize user adoption by ...

August 2011-
Approximately 30% of midsize businesses worldwide started to virtualize servers before 2009, but that number roughly doubled during 2009. The majority of midsize businesses are virtualizing at a rapid pace.

Server virtualization has empowered midsize businesses to examine the entirety of their infrastructure and look for ways to lower their cost base, while improving utilization and availability - in many cases, more so than large enterprises. Because of this, midsize businesses have become a major new ...

February 2012-
IT departments need a solution that meets the evolving needs of both the employees and IT - something not possible with a traditional PC model.

This paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users' needs, and ready for new and future technology.

August 2011-
This eBook looks at the challenges involved in delivering and managing desktops, today and in the future. Its goal is to demonstrate how VMware desktop virtualization can deliver a solution to address the requirements of IT and end-users without compromise.

January 2011-
Findings of an inspection of over 100,000 endpoints across multiple enterprises confirmed some type of breaches in security and compliance. Typically, 10-35% of endpoints demonstrated some kind of security threat or compliance issue. The most notable findings of the 2010 study were a dramatic rise in unmanaged machines and miss-configured anti-virus software and other third-party agents.

April 2011-
The cloud computing vision and the underlying demand for flexibility is essentially universal- everyone wants to move their IT toward a more flexible, efficient future state. However, enterprises don?t want to wait for maturation to occur in the public cloud providers, nor do they want to be responsible for building it themselves. Download this Illuminata Spotlight to review a solution that is built atop top-notch components; implements enterprise-oriented pools of resources; and provides a ...

January 2012-
Do you know your current PC deployment cost? Based on a study of 250 organizations around the world by IDC Research, this ROI calculator has been built to show you how much PC deployments cost you and how much you can save by moving to different levels of automation.

IDC research shows that the average deployment cost is $615 per PC, and costs exceeding $700 are not uncommon. Further, by adopting a higher level of maturity, ...